CAS BI 107 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Neuromuscular Junction, Skeletal Muscle, Sarcolemma

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Muscle cells have some special functional properties that enable them to perform their duties: Irritability ability to receive and respond to a stimulus. Contractility ability to shorten (forcibly) when an adequate stimulus is received. Skeletal muscle cells must be stimulated by nerve impulses in order to contract. Neuromuscular junction association site of nerve and muscle. Synaptic cleft gap between nerve and muscle. Area between nerve and muscle is filled with interstitial fluid, which has a specific ph. Neurotransmitter chemical released by nerve upon arrival of nerve impulse. The neurotransmitter for skeletal muscle is acetylcholine or. Sarcolemma becomes permeable to sodium (na+) and potassium (k+) Sodium rushing into the cell and potassium diffusing out of the cell generates an electrical current called an action potential. It travels over the entire surface of the sarcolemma, conducting the electrical impulse from one end of the cell to the other. The events that return the cell to its resting state are:

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